Nikolay Chernetskiy

Nikolay Chernetskiy
Personal information
Born 29 November 1959 (age 64)
Frunze, Kirghiz SSR, Soviet Union
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing the Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1980 Moscow 4x400 m relay
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1983 Helsinki 4x400 m relay

Nikolay Nikolayevich Chernetskiy (Russian: Николай Николаевич Чернецкий; born 29 November 1959 in Frunze, Kirghiz SSR) is a retired track and field sprinter from the Soviet Union.

He is known for winning the gold medal in the men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1980 Summer Olympics and at the inaugural 1983 World Championships (with Aleksandr Troshchilo, Sergey Lovachov, and Viktor Markin, clocking a total time of 3:00.79 min).